Sometimes, science doesn’t provide radical new findings, it just confirms what we’ve all suspected for generations. Take, for instance, a recent study that shows women are happier in relationships when men know they’re miserable. Men on the other hand, they’re just happy when their partner is happy.
Until about 2004, most scientists believed that women were born with all the reproductive eggs they would have for the rest of their lives. Then a scientist named Jonathan Tilly published research that claimed women might actually replenish their supply of eggs throughout their lives.
Do you remember your first break-up in great detail? Maybe sex from the other month? Or, most vividly, the really bad sex from last year? Turns out, men remember unpleasant and sexual experiences far more accurately than women.
Quick! Name the most perplexing social site you can think of. If you are a dude, it is probably Pinterest. Pinterest is a social network, like everything else one talks about on the internet nowadays. It’s “a virtual pinboard” that “allows you to organise and share all the beautiful things you find on the web.”
At CES last week, in addition to all the gear and gadgets, there was something else on display: women. As with many trade shows — especially ones aimed at a male audience — CES was rife with booth babes.
CES has started, which means junk like this is now showing up in my inbox. Hey, [REDACTED], did you put a butt in your email to remind me how shitty your products are? Because that’s what I’m thinking.
Stephen Hawking is perhaps the finest mind alive on the planet. Still, it’s nice to hear he occasionally shares the worries of the rest of us. In a recent interview with New Scientist, he was asked what he thought about most during the day. His answer? “Women. They are a complete mystery.” [New Scientist; Image: lwpkommunikacio]
You love your girly girlfriend (friend, sister, cousin, who needs labels). But you do not at all understand the girly-girl accoutrements. They’re a glittery, flowery, long-eyelashed cloud trailing her like a shiny pink version of Pig Pen’s dirty shadow. Think you’re not equipped for the job of gifting such a creature? Never fear. Here’s a list of presents that are super-fem but believable and appropriate coming from a dude such as yourself.
In a rare example of overruling her own experts and the US Federal Drug Administration — while apparently ignoring the highest teen pregnancy rate of any industrialised country — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is prohibiting teenagers younger than 17 from buying the morning-after pill over the counter.
